[Dovecot] imap sent-mail folder sometimes dosen't get updated when used by more than a mailer at the same time.

[Tim Alberts]

Diego Liziero wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm collecting users feedback of latest dovecot 1.1.rc3 development release.
>
> Some users are complaining that their sent mails sometimes don't get
> written to imap Sent-mail folder.
>   
I'm having that exact trouble with Usermin as I just posted a follow up 
to an old issue.  See subject:

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP storage - mail_location =    
maildir:~/Maildir:mbox:~/mail/

I'm using dovecot 1.0.10.  However when using thunderbird, I do not see 
this problem.

> It seems that all these users were using multiple istances of imap
> processes to read their mail
> (thunderbird+horde-imp, evolution+horde-imp or multiple thunderbird istances).
>   
Being my first experience using/configuring IMAP server, I'm finding 
that using multiple clients at the same time, changes are not 
immediately posted so viewing the same account with thunderbird on one 
machine and outlook on another, it appears to get out of sync.  Seems 
mostly the 'delete' or 'move' commands don't actually happen until the 
client program is closed.  I'm finding this annoying personally, but it 
seems to be the way it is supposed to work?


> No error message is written in dovecot.log, no user feedback in
> horde-imp/evolution.
> Only thunderbird says it can't update Sent folder.
>
> Has anyone had similar issues?
>
> Diego.
>
>